Bishopswood

144 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bishopswood, from 2 m² to 532,546 m² (53.25 ha, 131.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Bishopswood in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 28 Oct 2025Conditional

  redevelopment of an existing dormer cottage to a 4-bedroom 2-storey dormer house, including the upgrade to a mechanical aerated treatment system with percolation area, the setback of roadside boundary and entrance, and all other associated external works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2561080

• 23 Sept 2025N/a

  redevelopment of existing dormer cottage to a 4-bedroom 2-storey dormer house, including all associated external works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560945

• 20 Aug 2025N/a

  redevelopment of an existing dormer cottage to a 4-bedroom 2-storey dormer house including all associated external works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560814

• 4 Jun 2025Conditional

  the construction of a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2560509

• 24 Feb 2025N/a

  redevelopment of an existing dormer cottage to 2 separate two-bedroom apartments, including all associated external works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560134

• 27 Jun 2024Conditional

  the construction of a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2460520

• 9 May 2024Conditional

  the erection of a storage unit

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460355

• 23 Jan 2023Conditional

  (1) the dwelling house as constructed (2) a domestic storage shed (3) the hard standing areas and including all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2312

• 16 Apr 2021Conditional

  erect a self-contained wood pellet boiler unit and wood pellet silo on a concrete base

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21516

• 4 Feb 2021Conditional

  to renovate existing dwelling, erect extension to the rear, convert the attic space to a dormer type living area, install an effluent treatment tank with polishing filter, maintaining existing entrance and all associated ancillary works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21120

• 10 Dec 2020Conditional

  1. Office area, toilet and stores 2. Vegetable preparation area 3. Laundry 4. Activities room 5. Nurses station and ancillary rooms 6. Extension to existing bedroom 7. Wall around compound area

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 201477

• 20 Nov 2020N/a

  1. Office area, toilet and stores, 2. Vegetable preparation area, 3. Laundry, 4. Activities room, 5. Nurses station and ancillary rooms,6 Extension to existing bedroom, 7. Wall around compound area

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 201373

• 6 Nov 2019N/a

  renovation of existing dwelling, erection of a dormer type extension to the rear, installation an effluent treatment tank with polishing filter, relocation entrance and all associated ancillary works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19601242

• 20 Mar 2019Conditional

  (a) Retention of dwelling house as constructed, Relocation of entrance and re-orientation of dwelling house on existing site previously granted planning under reference P.3 13740 and (b) Retention of existing garage to rear of dwelling and all associated site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 19600250

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Suir SAC 002137

Recorded monuments

• TS052-016 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  On high ground on SE-facing slope of rising poorly drained ground with good panoramic views to S and E. Now situated in large coniferous plantation poorly preserved monument consisting of a raised circular platform/mound (H 0.7m; diam. approx. 30m N-S; 17m E-W) defined by a scarp which has been quarried into on the downlsope destroying the S half of the mound. This quarry is indicated on the first ed. OS 6-inch map. Rest of interior has been planted with conifers and forestry drainage channels intersect the W side of the mound, no evidence of an enclosing fosse or bank. Imprerssive panoramic views of the surrounding countryside to S and E, land immediately around the mound was wet poorly drained land. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS052-028 Enclosure
  Description

  At NE end of NE-SW glacial ridge in flat wet grassland with good views in all directions. No surface remains of any enclosure in area marked on latest ed. OS 6-inch map. Depicted on first ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped grove of trees rather than as an antiquity. This may have been a landscape feature or a source of timber for the osiery which was located in the field to the SE of the grove of trees. This grove of trees was located on the only dry ridge in wet marshy terrain, suitable location for a plantation of trees. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bishopswood.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bishopswood.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

• Bishopswood, Dundrum9 sales

Name

Bishopswood · Coill an Easpaig

Area

4,277,988 m² (427.8 ha, 1,057.11 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmore, and its townlands

Barony

Kilnamanagh Lower

Electoral division

Oughterleague, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Oughterleague electoral division: 575 people in 189 households; 81% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygarrane, Carrow, Clonaspoe, Cumask, Demone, Dundrum, Garryduff East, Gortarush Lower, Gorteennamona

Placenames

Bishopswood on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.